Update: 7/26/2007 The OpenID Foundation has awarded the first three bounties to Plone, Drupal and dotnetnuke.

In an effort to raise the awareness and increase adoption of OpenID, we are proud to announce the OpenID Code Bounty.

US$5,000 will be donated to the first ten software projects that meet the requirements of the bounty program. Currently the OpenID Code Bounty is being sponsored by VeriSign, JanRain, Four Kitchen Studios, Cordance, ooTao, Zooomr, claimID, ZP3, International Webmasters Association, NetMesh, SXIP, Opinity, Six Apart and AmSoft.
Bounty Eligibility*

We are hoping that in addition to the following requirements we will have the open source community nominate projects that they would like to see included in the bounty. To participate in the bounty, you must:

• Distribute under an OSI-approved license.
• Have at least 200,000 public internet users and 5,000 downloads per month.
• Implement OpenID 2.0 support as a Relying Party (RP) or Identity Provider (IdP).
• Make enabling OpenID no more difficult than changing one configuration setting (there can be more optional configuration settings).
• Distribute the implementation as part of the project’s core (it cannot be an additional download or patch).
• Place an OpenID logo in the signon form (as on this site).
• Answer “What is OpenID?” (or link to an answer) near the signon form.

*These criteria may be subject to minor changes and clarifications.

Suggested Projects

We’d really like to see OpenID included in these projects:

• Drupal
• Joomla
• Mailman
• MediaWiki
• phpBB
• Plone
• Slashcode
• WordPress

If your project can claim an OpenID Bounty, please send a note to Scott Kveton at scott @ his last name dot com.